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Anime & Manga

  • Anime News Network describes itself as "the #1 English language source for anime and manga news on the Internet."
  • "Manga!". Nikkei Heritage IX, no. 2 (Spring 2002). (PDF)
Issue devoted to the graphic novel and cartoon phenomenon. Includes the following articles: "The Making of a Sansei President" by Carl Gustav Horn; "Where the Girls Are" by Shaenon Garrity; "A Fan’s Top Five" by Madeline Nakashima-Conway; "Like a Demon on Wheels" by Kenneth Masaki Tanemura; "Who is Fred Schodt?" (a profile of the definitive expert on manga in America); "In Their Own Words: Jack Matsuoka" by Ken Kaji; "The First Modern Comic Book in America" by Kenji Murase; "Stan Sakai: Samurai with a Pen" by Chiori Santiago; and "Taro Yashima: Pictures and Propoganda" by Leonard Rifas.
Describes the widespread appeal of manga (Japanese comics) to the young female audience, and efforts by American publishers to capture that market.
Brief biographical essay about Henry Kiyama, and the genesis of the first modern-format comic book published in the United States.
  • Exhibition: "Manga: A Century of Social Commentary by Japanese Artists in America" (San Francisco, National Japanese American Historical Society, closed February 1, 2002). Manga that spans 10 years and ranges from views on everyday experiences of immigrant life, internment, politics to fantasy. Works of Henry Yoshitaka Kiyama's Four Immigrants, the World War II era cartoons of Jack Matsuoka and Pete Hironaka, to the more recent works of Stan Sakai (Usagi Yojimbo) and Kaiji Kawaguchi (Eagle).
Report of a panel discussion among Carl Horn (Viz Communications, publisher of many manga English translations), Fredrik Schodt (translator of "The Four Immigrants Manga" and author of the guidebook "Manga! Manga!"), and Tomoko Saito (illustrator and comic artist with manga producer Studio Proteus), in conjunction with the exhibition.
Brief description of the manga phenomenon in Brazil.
Anime Sound & Vision was established by Joe Palermo and Sen Yamanaka for the purpose of spreading Japanese culthre through the power of Anime.

Publishers

  • CMX is the manga imprint of DC Comics.
  • Dark Horse, the 4th largest publisher of comics in the U.S., also publishes a line of manga.
  • Del Rey (an imprint of Random House) began publishing manga in May 2004, using series produced in Japan by Kodansha.
  • Digital Manga, Inc. (DMI) "specializes in building corporate and cultural bridges from Japan to the Western Hemisphere - specifically through the licensing, importation and preparation of anime (Japanese animation), manga (Japanese comic books) and related merchandise for the North American mainstream and subculture markets. In this capacity, DMI serves as a catalyst for the expansion of Japanese pop-culture institutions into global arenas."
  • TOKYOPOP is another major North American publisher of manga.
  • VIZ "is the leading U.S. publisher of Japanese animation and comics (anime and manga) for English-speaking audiences." Founded in 1986 and based in San Francisco, VIZ publishes over 20 titles every month.

Festivals & Celebrations

Other Media & Entertainment

Photo: New York University Asian/Pacific/American Program and Institute
Photo: New York University Asian/Pacific/American Program and Institute
The Yoshio Kishi/Irene Yah-Ling Sun Collection of rare artifacts serves as the anchor to the New York University A/P/A Studies Institute's Research Archives. An extensive compilation of over 8,000 artifacts that date from the mid-1700s to the 1990s, it includes photographs, films, cartoons, pulp magazines, advertisements, sheet music, books, journals, and other memorabilia that relate to persons of Asian or Pacific Islander ancestry. Notable are images of Fu Manchu, posters of American silent film idols Sessue Hiyakawa and Anna May Wong, as well as early novels by Asian American pioneers. The Kishi/Sun Collection - built by Mr. Kishi, an award-winning Nisei film editor from New York City who has been collecting Asian/Pacific American materials for the past 40 years - is currently being purchased by NYU A/P/A Studies and will serve as the foundation for the development of a premiere East Coast research archives that documents the wide-ranging, unknown and complex stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the Americas and beyond. Curated by historian, cultural activist, and A/P/A Studies Founding Director John Kuo Wei Tchen, this exhibit includes rare anti-Asian "Yellow Peril" documents and pieces made by New York Asian American activists in the 1960s. "Yoshio Kishi is Asian America’s Arturo Schomburg, collector of the Black diaspora during the Harlem renaissance. Kishi’s visionary collection meticulously documents U.S. orientalism and yellow peril. It also documents the emergence of Asian American voices and activists challenging these stereotypes with a vision for a new America," said Tchen.
  • Eiko Nijo, model (Goldsea Asian American Profiles)
"Segundo a personal stylist Nazareth Amaral, não existe moda ultrapassada, mas ela chama a atenção para o uso de acessórios velhos e sujos."
"Conhecidos ou não, eles estão fazendo sucesso no badalado mundo fashion no Brasil. Mas eles querem muito mais e mostram que têm muito talento."
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